Re: [Tagging] Forestry/logging

2017-04-09 Thread Mattias Dalkvist
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > There was a longer discussion about this topic in January this year > already: > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2017-January/thread.html > > I think the conclusion was to keep landuse=forest and the dicussion forked > into s

Re: [Tagging] Forestry/logging

2017-04-09 Thread Warin
On 09-Apr-17 08:13 PM, Mattias Dalkvist wrote: I should describe my use case a bit more: When hiking and planing a hike (in Scandinavian forests) it is very useful to know/see where the clearing (from clearcutting) are. Resent ones have lost of wet tracks from the harvesters but also areas that

Re: [Tagging] message=*

2017-04-09 Thread Warin
On 07-Apr-17 04:16 AM, Paul Desgranges wrote: The idea of the "size " attribute was to provide the length*height*width of the advertising device itself (without the support), while the "height" attribute of the advertising device gave the total h

Re: [Tagging] Forestry/logging

2017-04-09 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would also like to know when a harvest is planed, so I can avoid the > area when that is taking place (traffic, noise and dust). > > Where an area has been clear felled, replanted and is now thick.. they > usually do a sele

Re: [Tagging] Forestry/logging

2017-04-09 Thread Vao Matua
This is an interesting discussion. As a tree farmer and professional forester I am offended by the suggestion that a harvested area is different landuse from areas that are in other stages of forest growth. I understand the need to avoid current logging operations, but I would say that crowd sourc

Re: [Tagging] Forestry/logging

2017-04-09 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Vao Matua wrote: > This is an interesting discussion. As a tree farmer and professional > forester I am offended by the suggestion that a harvested area is different > landuse from areas that are in other stages of forest growth. > I understand the need to avoid c

Re: [Tagging] Forestry/logging

2017-04-09 Thread Vao Matua
Clifford, You are correct, landuse is different from landcover. I assume you are tagging farmland as landuse, not landcover. The problem with landcover is that the currency and consistency of the source information is critical and is very difficult in OSM. The OSM tagging for landcover should have

Re: [Tagging] Forestry/logging

2017-04-09 Thread Warin
Landcover=wood (or the presently OSM popular 'natural=wood')applies to trees of all types, ages, planting densities and heights. So there are some sub tags that can be used under that land cover. Harvesting operations are a function of land use (forestry or farm) and could be a sub tag under th